The very best part of my new visor, the Arby's logo on the front of the brim. You can't really read it, but its there, I promise, proudly pronouncing "Arby's" to the world.

New Uniforms

Since Arby's has been my life lately, I thought perhaps my readers would like an update on the uniforms. We got new ones. New shirts, visors, hats, even nametags. This is my new Arby's hat. Denfinately an improvement on the old one. Much brighter, and complete with the smudge of flour on in. ;)

Arby's, baseball, and life lessons learned

.....My life here in college has been entirely hectic for the past month. The last half of the spring semester is always stressful. This stress has been compounded for me by several factors: this is my first semester working and going to school full-time; this is my last semester at Colby, therefore classes are harder; I have had to search for a new college, and make provisions for moving to an entirely new town; my future roomie (one of my skittles) and I had our first sorta-fight ever; and all of this is probably why I'm fourteen posts behind the required number for my news writing class. My life seems to revolve around Arby's and baseball, and baseball and Arby's.
.....I go to the baseball games so I can survive my life at Arby's. I go back to Arby's so I can earn money and go back to the baseball games..
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.....Actually that's not entirely true. I go to the baseball games because my friends go and that's pretty much the only time I get to hang around them anymore. I go to Arby's so I can earn money and finish school here at Colby without making my parents go entirely broke. But in working at Arby's, I have met some interesting characters who do get caught in a spiral pretty similiar to the one I was almost in. They work at Arby's. They hate it. They get drunk whenever they can so they can forget the bad day they had working at Arby's. When they wake up sober, they have to go back to work at Arby's so they can afford to drink, so they can survive working at Arby's.
.....I never could understand alcoholism before. I never got how on earth someone could just throw their life away, without regret and without looking back. But now that I've seen it, I do understand. Sometimes when things get hard, its easy to get tunnel vision, and to never look any farther than tonight and tomorrow. When that's all you can see, it makes it harder than heck to do anything you don't wanna do. I'd like to give some of my Arby's buddies a boost, a loan, something to get them out of their tunnel and on with life. I have no idea what I would do, however, and in all honestly its really none of my business.
.....I know one thing, though. I never want to be them. I'm more determined than ever now to finish my education and get a decent job I enjoy.

Baseball Update

.....We won our second two games on Tuesday.
.....Our college played their first four home games this weekend. On Saturday we won the first game by three or four. I had to go to work so I missed most of the second game, but one of the guys told me they lost. Pretty badly. They lost again, by a single point, the next day. They redeemed themselves, however, by winning the second game on Sunday.
My skittles and I went to the Sunday games together. They were very entertaining. While baseball in and of itself is one of the more boring sports to watch, the way our team played baseball was very entertaining. Or perhaps I should say the way they incorporated music into their baseball game was very entertaining. Every guy had his own specific walk-out song that they played while they were walking up to the plate. They played music warning up before the games, they played music while the coaches and pitchers on the opposite team conferred on the field, and they played music while they waited for the ref to get his gear on. I like music. Their games were fun to watch.
.....We will face a community college from Colorado this weekend in four home games. Colorado boys are good at baseball (or so my limited observations lead me to believe). Let's hope our guys play hard.

Sneak Peak

My hermit crab in his shell. Hopefully he gets over being camera shy soon and I can get a picture of him crawling.

My New Best Friend...well....sorta

.....I bought a hermit crab Friday afternoon. Its very cute, and has a toucan painted on its shell. Unfortunately, its also very shy and hermitty, and that's why you don't have a picture to compliment this text post. It came out of its shell for me a couple times on Friday and Saturday, and then last night it went and buried itself deep in the sand in the bottom of its terrarium. I don't know how it is for other people, but for me, its a little hard to take a picture of a buried hermit crab without digging it up. I thought about it, but then I figured if its crabby enough to bury itself to escape me, it might possibly be better to let it alone until it decides to unbury itself.
.....This is the first pet I've had while I've been in college, saving the gold fish I was given in a biology lab. Before I came to college, I was never without pets. As a kid I had rabbits, chickens, ducks, and cats in plenty. I got a dog when I was thirteen. When she exited my life, I moved to some smaller animals--all cast-offs from my sisters--two parakeets and two fish. I had a wolf spider my daddy caught for me, which I managed to keep alive for a little while, and a tarantula, compliments of my older sister. The tarantula is my favorite of all my small pets. Unfortunately, it died shortly after the wolf spider. Apparently they were both males and its only females of those species that are long lived. I wanted to get another spider, but my roommate absolutely refused. I wanted to get another dog, but my land-lady had a slight problem with that. I'm done with poultry and rabbits and fish for now, and my roommate's allergic to cats and birds. So a hermit crab was the best I could do.

Colby vs. Pratt

.....Long story short: we won.
.....This is a good thing, because when we loose, the baseball boys get boring. They don't exactly get crabby, just less hyper and less disruptive than usual, and my people watching hours are less entertaining.
.....Colby's baseball team played two games against Pratt Saturday, and won both. They were going to play two more games today, but got rained out. The games were rescheduled for Monday, until it was discovered that it is supposed to rain in Pratt tomorrow, too. Then they were rescheduled for Tuesday. We'll have to see how we do, but I'm predicting another pair of victories.